Category Archives: Storage

It has been quite a while since the last post. We have been busy testing and configuring the server platform and doing various groundwork for the project. But there has been good progress. We have a new developer starting soon … Continue reading →

Last week I wrote about our experiences on setting up a diskless Ubuntu installation into our blade server environment. There were some unsolved issues which we managed to resolve and finally got Ubuntu to boot. In this post, I’m going … Continue reading →

A couple of weeks ago, I introduced the server environment we’re going to build for the project. Today I’m going to get into the details and share some experiences. We purchased four IBM HS23E (Type 8038) blade servers and installed them … Continue reading →

This time I present some ideas behind this project. The preservation of digital contents is a continuous process that will last decades and centuries. Therefore preservation organisation – not depending if it is a content owner or a preservation service … Continue reading →